The Smiling Country

The Smiling Country

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780812540192

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A cowboy struggles to adapt to the modern world in 1910s Texas. Hewey Calloway finds it difficult to accept fences, cars and, worst of all--sheep. Also, he is advancing in years, though here there is a consolation, he is teaching the trade to his nephew.


The Smiling Country

The Smiling Country

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1466819146

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"The Smiling Country is about a footloose puncher who finds out the hard way that cowboys don't remain young forever and that the inevitable wear and tear of a rugged life forces changes and compromises on the willing and unwilling alike."— Elmer Kelton Hewey Calloway did not know how old he was without stopping to figure, and that distracted his attention from matters of real importance. Elmer Kelton introduced Texas cowboy Hewey Calloway, one of the most beloved characters in Western fiction, almost thirty years ago in The Good Old Boys. The novel was transformed into a memorable 1995 TV film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Sissy Spacek. Hewey returns in The Smiling Country. It is 1910 and his freewheeling life is coming to an end—the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are creeping in even to remote Alpine, in the "smiling country" of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey sees the loneliness that awaits him, and regrets his decision to run away from the only woman he has ever loved, the schoolteacher Spring Renfro. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Smiling Country

The Smiling Country

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-04

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780765360595

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Cowboy Hewey Calloway, having always shunned responsibility, finds himself reassessing his life, and regretting his lost love, after he is injured while trying to break a renegade horse.


The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country

The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Forge Books

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 0765394022

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The Good Old Boys and The Smiling Country pairs two wonderful novels by one of the most honored of all western writers, Elmer Kelton The Good Old Boys Hewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering the land on horseback, but the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing. Land is being parceled out, barbed-wire fences are springing up all over, and cars are replacing the horse as a mode of transportation. Swimming against the tide of “progress,” Hewey begins to understand that the time of the cowboy is over, that the life he dreams of has become part of the past. He must find a new path to happiness—one that may require a great sacrifice. The Smiling Country It is now 1910 and Hewey Calloway’s freewheeling life is coming to an end—the fences, trucks, and automobiles he hates are even creeping in to remote Alpine in the “smiling country” of West Texas. When he is badly injured trying to break a renegade horse, Hewey’s regrets over his lost love, schoolteacher Spring Renfro haunt him as he sees the loneliness that awaits him. The Smiling Country is filled with humor, love, and the lore of the cowboy life at a time when the great, free, open ranges of the West were adjusting to a new, technological era. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Smiling Country

Smiling Country

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher:

Published: 2000-03-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781417620159

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Confronted by the changes of the modern era, Hewey, an open range cowboy, had made decisions he felt would best suit the new world of the early twentieth century, yet four years later, he remains haunted by his choices and struggles to make things right o


Dude, Where's My Country?

Dude, Where's My Country?

Author: Michael Moore

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-06-17

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0141938390

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He's the man everyone's talking about. He's taken on gun freaks, stupid white men and corporate crooks. Now Michael Moore is on a new mission: to get us of our behinds and kicking out the corrupt political elites who rule our lives.


The Good Old Boys

The Good Old Boys

Author: Elmer Kelton

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1999-04-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0812575997

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In 1906, cowboy Hewey Calloway realizes that the West is changing and that he must find a new way of life in a new era.


Mother Country

Mother Country

Author: Jacinda Townsend

Publisher: Graywolf Press

Published: 2022-05-03

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1644451751

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Winner of the 2022 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Shortlisted for the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award A transnational feminist novel about human trafficking and motherhood from an award-winning author. Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life. In rendering Souria’s separation from her family across vast stretches of desert and Shannon’s alienation from her mother under the same roof, Jacinda Townsend brilliantly stages cycles of intergenerational trauma and healing. Linked by the girl who has been a daughter to them both, these unforgettable protagonists move toward their inevitable reckoning. Mother Country is a bone-deep and unsparing portrayal of the ethical and emotional claims we make upon one another in the name of survival, in the name of love.


Smiling Wolf

Smiling Wolf

Author: Philip Carlo

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780843956788

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Investigating the mysterious disappearance of a reporter, a former detective finds himself drawn into the dark underground world of blood-drinking cultists.